Latest Bellwether Films: 25 April 2010

Zoe Saldana in 'The Losers'

Aventures Extraordinaries d’Adele Blanc-Sec, Les (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec) - French period action fantasy

1912. Returning from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Patmosis, beautiful yet daring Parisian reporter Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) takes on a psychopathic pterodactyl that mysteriously hatched from a 136 million year-old egg at the Natural History Museum. She tames the pterodactyl and rides the flying dinosaur to rescue an elderly professor from the guillotine because he holds the key to reanimating the Egyptian mummy linked to the pterodactyl attacks. Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE - 62

Back-Up Plan, The - Hollywood relationships situation romantic comedy

On the same day after being artificially inseminated, a single woman (Jennifer Lopez) meets the man of her dreams (Alex O’Loughlin) and, as the romance progresses, must figure out not only how to tell him but also where to take the relationship from there. Satisfaction rating: BELOW AVERAGE - 28

Camping 2 - French holiday situation comedy

FOUR YEARS LATER, AUGUST. When his girlfriend (Marilyne Canto) wants a time out, a middle aged insurance manager (Richard Anconina) changes his vacation plans to the Bleus Plots campgrounds where he stumbles across Patrick Chirac (Franck Dubosc) and the whole gang from the original Camping. Satisfaction rating: BELOW AVERAGE - 33

Detective Conan 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky (名探偵コナン天空の難破船) - Japanese crime mystery animation

In a past assassination attempt, the Black Organization crime ring poisoned investigator Jimmy Kudo with a drug that inadvertently shrank him. Now he lives incognito posing as a 7-year-old and solves cases as Detective Edogawa Conan: In this latest adventure Sonoko’s uncle, invites Conan, Ran and the Junior Detective League to ride Bell Tree, the largest airship in the world, on a six-hour trip to Osaka. However, Kid has his eyes set on the “Lady of the Sky” jewel aboard the vessel. Also, the mysterious terrorist group known as Red Siamese Cat skyjacks the ship and accidentally releases a deadly virus. Satisfaction rating: GOOD

Go Lala Go! (杜拉拉升职记) - Chinese work place romance comedy

A pretty young woman (Jinglei Xu - 徐静蕾) chooses the high road to advancement, from college graduate to senior HR manager, in the cutthroat fashion world while working for an international Fortune 500 corporation. Along the way, she finds romance with a handsome colleague (Stanley Huang - 黃立行). Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE - 69

invités de mon père, Les (My Father’s Guests) - French domestic situation comedy

Scandalizing both his son (Fabrice Luchini) and his daughter (Karin Viard), a retired eighty-something doctor (Michel Aumont) marries a twenty-something undocumented Moldavian sex kitten (Veronika Novak) to prevent her deportation. The good doctor insists that the marriage is genuine. Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE - 68

Losers, The - Hollywood conspiracy suspense action

On a mission to destroy a drug operation inside the Bolivian jungle, an elite U.S. Special Forces unit (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaenada) is betrayed and left for dead by their remote CIA black ops handler Max (Jason Patric). Aided by a mysterious exotic beauty (Zoe Saldana) with her own hidden agenda, the team seeks retribution against the traitorous handler who now seems bent on sparking a new world war. Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE - 61

Nodame Cantabile Part 2 (のだめカンタービレ最終楽章　後編) - Japanese song & dance comedy romance

Picking up where the Part 1 left off, Nodame (Juri Ueno - 上野樹里上野樹里) and Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki - 玉木宏) mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. However, when things don’t go her way, she gets impatient and depressed. While Nodame is away, Chiaki’s former pianist, pretty Rui Son (Yu Yamada - 山田優), returns to take her place. To make matters worse, Rui and Chiaki are set to play the song Nodame dreams of playing with Chiaki herself: Ravel’s “Concerto in G Minor”. Based on the Fuji-TV series and manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE

Veda - Ataturk (Farewell Ataturk) - Turkish epic biographical drama

The life of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Sinan Tuzcu) from childhood to soldier to resistance leader to founder of the Turkish Republic as enabled by his closest friend Salih Bozok (Serhat Mustafa Kiliç). Satisfaction rating: ABOVE AVERAGE

World's Favorite Films 2010

World's Favorite Foreign Language Films 2010

Aftershock (Chinese)

L'arnacoeur (French)

The Borrower Arietty (Japanese)

Ip Man 2 (Chinese)

Pokemon: Phanton Ruler Zoroark (Japanese)

Confessions (Japanese)

My Name Is Khan (Bollywood)

Nodame Cantabile 2 (Japanese)

Blood Brothers: Secret Reunion (Korean)

Doraemon: Mermaid Adventure (Japanese)

Raajneeti (Bollywood)

Little Big Soldier (Chinese)

La Rafle (French)

Les Aventures Extraordinaire d'Adele Blanc-Sec (French)

Io, loro e Lara (Italian)

Liar Game (Japanese)

Our Rossiya (Russian)

Moss (Korean)

71 - Into the Gunfire (Korean)

Housefull (Bollywood)